smart

smart1 [ smart ] adjective ***

▸ 1 intelligent

▸ 2 clever/funny but rude

▸ 3 about weapons etc

▸ 4 tidy/clean/fashionable

▸ 5 connected with the rich

▸ 6 quick and full of energy

1. ) intelligent:

Sophie is a smart, hard-working student.

If you were smart, you'd buy now before prices go up.

They're smart enough to ask all the right questions.

a ) done with intelligence or careful thought:

Starting a pension scheme now would be a smart move.

a smart question

2. ) speaking or behaving in a clever or funny way that shows a lack of respect:

boys who are punished for being smart in class

a smart answer/attitude

get smart with someone: Don't get smart with me!

3. ) smart machines, especially weapons, use computer technology to make them effective:

smart mines/bombs

4. ) MAINLY BRITISH clean and tidy in appearance and dressed in nice fashionable clothes, especially in a slightly formal way:

Sandy's looking very smart today.

a ) used about someone's clothes:

a smart blue suit

5. ) MAINLY BRITISH connected with rich fashionable people:

We spent a few hours on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills' smart shopping district.

the smart set (=fashionable people): a restaurant popular with the smart set

6. ) a smart movement is quick and full of force or energy:

a smart rap on the knuckles

╾ smart|ly adverb:

a smartly dressed young man

Profits are rising smartly under new management.

╾ smart|ness noun uncount

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smart 2 [ smart ] verb intransitive

1. ) to hurt with a sudden sharp pain:

The smoke made my eyes smart.

2. ) usually progressive to become very upset by something that has happened or that someone has said or done:

smart from: The senator was still smarting from his defeat in the vote.

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smart 3 [ smart ] noun singular

1. ) a short sharp pain

2. ) a feeling of being upset by something that has happened or that someone has said or done

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